#das parfum

[eltonjohndenver]

rip jean baptiste grenouille you would have loved omegaverse

[badger-and-bloom]

thinking about armand reading patrick süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and getting ideas. i think logically he obviously knows it doesn't work like that, but he would be tempted to try i think... he reads it to daniel and keeps glancing at him.

AU where he turns daniel into a perfume... wait let me cook...

[softlyhaunted]

a small, lovely second-hand bookshop in pucón, chile

[tarzanman]

Das Parfum (Patrick Süskind)

[bellasbookclub]

Reccer Spotlight: G!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Mexican Gothic

Jamaica Inn

The Monstrumologist

A River Enchanted

The Importance of Being Earnest

G tried to think of genre-ly diverse recs and they came out Oops, All Gothic (ok, except for the last two.) Full text available in their tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘23 Reclist!

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2023

more Reccer Spotlights

[gottdeswill]

[lesbian-gene-wolfe]

i love german because this is a normal sentence length:

Er hieß Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, und wenn sein Name im Gegensatz zu den Namen anderer genialer Scheusale, wie etwa de Sades, Saint-Justs, Fouches, Bonapartes usw., heute in Vergessenheit geraten ist, so sicher nicht deshalb, weil Grenouille diesen berühmteren Finstermännern an Selbstüberhebung, Menschenverachtung, Immoralität, kurz an Gottlosigkeit nachgestanden hätte, sondern weil sich sein Genie und sein einziger Ehrgeiz auf ein Gebiet beschränkte, welches in der Geschichte keine Spuren hinterlässt: auf das flüchtige Reich der Gerüche.

and so is this:

Seine Geschichte soll hier erzählt werden.

beautiful language. we also have to abbreviate normal words because they get to long like bzw for beziehungsweise because literally no one wants to type that out everytime we need it

[nightbloomingjasemine]

Hell yeah jean-baptiste grenuille kill that girl to inhale her smell!!!!

(probably most german post I ever posted)